mittimus

[ mit-uh-muhs ]

noun

, Law.

, plural mit·ti·mus·es.

1. a warrant of commitment to prison.
2. a writ for removing a suit or a record from one court to another.

mittimus

/ ˈmɪtɪməs /

noun

1. law a warrant of commitment to prison or a command to a jailer directing him to hold someone in prison

Word History and Origins

Origin of mittimus¹

1400–50; late Middle English < Latin: we send, first word of such a writ; remit

Word History and Origins

Origin of mittimus¹

C15: from Latin: we send, the first word of such a command

Example Sentences

He informed us that the Judge had made out a mittimus and sentenced us to jail for treason.

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Prisoners were here thrust into jail without a regular mittimus, the jailer having to send for one some days after.

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This made him alter his purpose, and by a new mittimus sent us to the House of Correction at Wycombe.

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Vnde mittimus in Angliam literas domini imperatoris super hijs patentes, vobis & cæteris amicis nostris beneuolis.

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I must make out this young woman's mittimus, and have her confined until the grand jury sit.'

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